ABSTRACT
The museum can be seen as an event, as a referential moment in time, that engages in "worldmaking." The modern museum displays objects that are exemplary of a moment of a culture's existence from a Western point of view, presenting and objectifying the culture itself. A university museum utilizing postmodern concepts, with freedom to experiment, can employ a socially conscious, pluralistic, relativistic, heterogeneous, and critical construction of knowledge and identities. The museum tactics used by the Fowler are similar to several discussed by Ruth Phillips, who presented some of the major postcolonial/postmodern museum tactics relating to African cultures. The first tactic to be discussed, which was seen in several of the displays and exemplified in Maori Cloaks, Maori Voices, is the utilization of the current cultural stakeholders to give voice for their culturally valuable historical objects. The second tactic has to do with acknowledging the complexity and heterogeneity of identity made visible within the museum space.
